I am quite fond of the Intellisense code completion baked into Microsoft Visual Studio. I find that I only type 2 to 4 characters of any given keyword which drasticaly speeds up my coding. Now that I have been spending time writing some Python code I find myself reaching for ctrl+space. Are there any IDEs that support code completion i...
I want to start using vim as my text editor for PHP, what do you guys suggest as good tutorials for not only using vim but also in a project sense?...
I'm interested in looking at Erlang and want to follow the path of least resistance in getting up and running. At present, I'm planning on installing Erlang R12B-3 and Erlide (Eclipse plugin). This is largely a Google-result-based decision. Initially this will be on a Windows XP system, though I am likely to reproduce the environment on...
Even though I have a robust and fast computer (Pentium Dual Core 2.0 with 2Gb RAM), I'm always searching for lightweight software to have on it, so it runs fast even when many apps are up and running simultaneously. On the last few weeks I've been migrating gradually to Linux and want to install a free lightweight yet useful IDE to prog...
Ok, heres one I've been saving for the day SO comes through. Ive always been a Zend Studio user (PHP developer here, 5 years self taught). Just fairly recently Zend introduced an Eclipse version of Studio which, albeit a lot easier to install I keep hitting walls when it comes to setup, some things are just 20-click retarded (e.g. confi...
What do you think is the best set-up for RoR in a Win Vista environment? I've tried the radrails eclipse plug-in, and it just seemed too bulky for me, I've also started to just use Textpad and the command line, but I'm used to having somewhat of an IDE to work with. Thanks for the help!...
In the past few months I began my first serious JavaScript development, as I began developing XUL applications. I use Notepad++ as my editor, but I was pretty appalled to find (as far as I can tell) that Venkman/Javascript Debugger is the tool for debugging. It seems like a poor replacement to Visual Studio for .Net languages. Am I mi...
Let's say that there is a solution that contains two projects (Project1 and Project2). Project1 is set as a StartUp Project (its name is displayed in a bold font). I double-click some file in Project2 to open it. The file opens, but something else happens too - Project2 gets set as a StartUp Project. I tried to find an option in config...
My dream IDE does full code hints, explains and completes PHP, Javascript, HTML and CSS. I know it exists! so far, Zend studio 6, under the Eclipse IDE does a great job at hinting PHP, some Javascript and HTML, any way I can expand this? edit: a bit more information: right now, using zend-6 under eclipse, i type in <?phpp //(a single ...
Does anyone know of any good IDE (Code completion, Syntax coloring, etc) that will handle php. Looking for anything that might be relatively cheap or free and doesn't run like crap (IE: Eclipse)...
I'm looking to learn python and wasn't sure what IDE's are available, what is the best one, etc. As a way of making the question more general, lets try to establish a definitive list of the best IDE for all languages. Here's a start .NET: MS VS Java: Eclipse Ruby: ? Python: ? x86 Assembly: ? others.... ...
Visual studio is a pretty awesome IDE, but sometimes you just wish it would go faster. I was wondering if people have any tips or tricks to help speed up visual studio in day to day use. Things that I'm particularly interested in are speeding up build times and switching aspx files from source to design view seem to bring it to a grindi...
Yes, I'm stuck supporting a legacy ASP application. I currently have VS2008 installed but it complains incessantly about the ASP and VBScript I am dealing with. What would be a better IDE to use to make it less sucky? Thanks, Geoff ...
I have a number of macros written for Visual Studio 2005, but they have since stopped working once I installed Visual Studio 2008 on my computer. No error is returned by the macro when I try and run it, and the environment merely shows the hourglass for a second and then returns to the normal cursor. Currently uninstalling one or the oth...
I'm a seasoned .Net developer with a good chunk of experience on the MS stack and in related areas. I'm about to learn Python and was curious about the ideal development environment on Windows - IDE, tools etc. I'd normally be happy to go out there and have a play with what's available, adapting as I go along. I'd also likely switch bet...
I would really like to see a proportional font IDE, even if I have to build it myself (perhaps as an extension to Visual Studio). What I basically mean is MS Word style editing of code that sort of looks like the typographical style in The C++ Programming Language book: I want to set tab stops for my indents and lining up function si...
I have a project group that contains a project I'm working on as well as some related component / packages. I prefer to have the database links active at design time, and though I know how to write the code to change database files location, I'm just using ".\data" for that in this case, for a few different reasons, mostly design-time r...
The Gang of Four's Design Patterns uses a word processor as an example for at least a few of their patterns, particularly Composite and Flyweight. Other than by using C or C++, could you really use those patterns and the object-oriented overhead they entail to write a high-performing fully featured word processor? I know that Eclipse ...
I've generally been doing stuff on Microsoft .Net out of college almost 2 years ago. I just started looking at Ruby on rails. So what editor should I use? I'm using Notepad++ right now but can I get debugging etc. somehow? ...
As you may know, in VS 2008 ctrl+tab brings up a nifty navigator window with a thumbnail of each file. I love it, but there is one tiny thing that is annoying to me about this feature: the window stays around after releasing the ctrl key. When doing an alt-tab in windows, you can hit tab to get to the item you want (while still holding d...